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If - be dissolved (eaṅ̇kataluthēi). Third class condition, ean and first aorist passive subjunctive. The very word used (kataluō) for striking down a tent.
The earthly house of our tabernacle (hē epigeios hēmōn oikia tou skēnous). Rather, “If our earthly (see note on 1Co 15:40 for epigeios) house of the tent (skēnos, another form of skēnē, tent, from root ska, to cover).” Appositive genitive, the house (oikia) is the tent.
We have (echomen). Present indicative. We possess the title to it now by faith. “Faith is the title-deed (hupostasis) to things hoped for” (Heb 11:7).
A building from God (oikodomēn ek theou). This oikodomē (found in Aristotle, Plutarch, lxx, etc., and papyri, though condemned by Atticists) is more substantial than the skēnos.
Not made with hands (acheiropoiēton). Found first in Mar 14:58 in charge against Jesus before the Sanhedrin (both the common verbal cheiropoiēton and the newly made vernacular acheiropoiēton, same verbal with a privative). Elsewhere only here and Col 2:11. Spiritual, eternal home.